Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Ireland)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Bunreacht na hÉireann (Ireland Taoiseach) in Irish; offered in PDF, HTML, and RTF
• Constitution of Ireland (Ireland Government) in English
• International Constitutional Law: Ireland (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation and background notes
• Constitution of the Irish Free State [Saorstát Eireann] Act, 1922 (Office of the Attorney General. Oifig an Árd-Aighna) in English

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Uachtaráin [President]
• Taoiseach [Prime Minister]
• An Roinn Gnóthai Eachtracha [Department of Foreign Affairs]
• Government
• Policies: Anglo-Irish (Ireland Government) in English

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• Court Services (Ireland Courts)
• Supreme Court [An Chúirt Uachtarach]
  • Supreme Court Cases (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)
• High Court [An Árd Chúirt]
• High Court Cases (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)
• Legal Professionals (Ireland Courts) includes law terms and legal diary pages

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: Tithe an Oireachtais [Houses of the Oireachtas] - consisting of the Seanad Éireann [Senate] and the Dáil Éireann [House of Representatives]
• Bilingual Acts of the Oireachtas
• BAILII Cases and Legislation (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)
• Irish Legal Information Initiative
• Irish Statute Book (Ireland)
• NATLEX: Ireland (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
• E-Transaction Law Resources: Ireland (Baker & McKenzie)
• Irish Law Site (University College Cork Law Department / Faculty)

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Ireland (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• FindLaw: Ireland
• ForIntLaw: Ireland (Washburn University Law Library)
• Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: Ireland (New York University Law Library)
• Guide to Irish Law (Darius Whelan, via GlobaLex) June 2005
• Irish Legal History: An Overview and Guide to the Sources (Janet Sinder, Duke University Law Library) - in PDF (182K); from 93 L. LIBR. J. 321 (2001)
• COURTS AND JUDICIARY Assistance: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
• JURIST: Ireland (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• World Law Index: Ireland (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Europe: Ireland (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Portals of the World: Ireland ()
• Background Notes: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Ireland (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Europe / Independent States
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Economic Briefing: Ireland (The Economist)
• Embassy of Ireland, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Ireland (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Ireland (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: National Library of Ireland [Leabharlann Náisiúnta NA hEireann]
• NEWS: BBC World Europe; Irish Times
• U.S. Embassy, Dublin (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Ireland (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Ireland (Google); Ireland (University of Michigan); Ireland (Yahoo); WWW-VL West European Studies: Ireland (University of Pittsburgh)